Tungrymbai
A Khasi and Jaintia fermented soybean food from Meghalaya: cooked beans ferment naturally in leaf-lined baskets above a fire, giving a sticky, pungent, savoury mass.
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Rice-koji soybean miso
A traditional Japanese fermented paste made by mixing cooked soybeans with rice koji and salt. This guide details the ratio, the long enzymatic breakdown, and the months-long maturation required for depth.
Sieng
A Cambodian fermented soybean food in which cooked beans ferment into a sticky alkaline mass, then are preserved and matured in salt brine, sometimes sweetened with sugar.
Shiokara natto (hama natto, tera natto)
A Japanese family of salted, dark, non-stringy natto made from whole soybeans, roasted grain and salt water, with names such as hama-natto, Daitokuji-natto and tera-natto. Not the sticky Bacillus natto.
Tương Bần
Tương Bần is a thick, sweet and salty northern Vietnamese soybean sauce made from soybean and sticky rice at Bần Yên Nhân in Hưng Yên, matured in ceramic jars for months.
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Three-bean miso
A home miso made from equal parts soybeans, chickpeas and Great Northern beans, cooked and mixed with rice koji and salt, then aged in a crock.
Tao-jiew (Thai fermented soybean condiment)
Tao-jiew is a salty, semi-solid soybean condiment from Thai cooking, made with koji and maturation in salt solution. The JIRCAS entry gives one method with key quantities left out.
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Kinema, warm-cloth home batch
A home kinema made from overnight-soaked white soybeans, cooked, drained hot, wrapped in cloth and insulated to ferment for about a week.
Thua nao (dried)
Northern Thai fermented soybean shaped while still soft into flat cakes and dried, so the bacterial soybean ferment becomes a durable, shelf-stable seasoning reserve.
Sweet miso glaze
A Japanese-style glaze of pale rice miso, water, sugar and rice vinegar, heated gently until it coats a spoon and spread over cooked aubergine, tofu or vegetables.
Okpiye (okpeye)
Okpiye, also written okpeye, is a Nigerian condiment from fermented Prosopis africana seeds; published studies describe laboratory batches, not a validated home method.
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Natto
Natto is a Japanese fermented soybean food with a sticky coat and long strings, made by steaming soybeans and inoculating them with a natto Bacillus starter, then keeping them warm.
Miso mustard
Karashi-su-miso is a smooth Japanese sauce of sweet miso, rice vinegar and hot mustard, stirred together for vegetables, seafood or poached fish.
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Hawaijar
A sticky fermented soybean food of Manipur, made by packing cooked soybeans in leaf-lined bamboo baskets and keeping them warm, related to but distinct from Bekang and Akhone.
Doenjang meju
A cooked soybean brick, shaped and dried, that is fermented as a solid and later brined to make the Korean soy paste doenjang and the soy sauce ganjang.
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Doenjang
Doenjang (된장) is a Korean fermented soybean paste made by brining meju, separating ganjang, then mashing and aging the solids. This recipe follows one documented Sunchang processing study.
Chu hou sauce (Cantonese fermented soybean braising paste)
Chu hou is a sweet, savoury Cantonese paste of fermented soybeans, fermented bean curd, garlic, ginger and sesame, used mainly to braise meat.
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Red Mucor-ripened sufu
Red sufu is tofu grown with an identified Mucor racemosus mould, salted, seasoned with red pepper and zanthoxylum, then matured under brine for 180 days.
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Tauco, Indonesian two-stage soybean paste
An Indonesian savoury soybean paste built in two stages: cooked beans and roasted flour carry a mould fermentation, then mature in salt brine into a thick, salty seasoning.
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Ugba, Nigerian fermented African oil bean
Sliced cotyledons of the African oil bean, boiled soft and fermented in banana-leaf parcels into the sharply savoury Nigerian condiment and salad ingredient known as ukpaka.
Bacterial-type douchi
A Chinese fermented soybean condiment in which Bacillus-led bacteria, not moulds, drive the fermentation. Documented in Zunyi, Guizhou, and kept separate from mould-led douchi.
Peruyaan
An Apatani fermented soybean food from the Ziro Valley of Arunachal Pradesh: cooked beans are wrapped in ginger leaves and left near the hearth until sticky and savoury, then eaten with rice or as a chilli-seasoned chutney.
Pe poke
A Myanmar soybean ferment in which cooked beans turn sticky through alkaline bacterial fermentation, then are eaten fresh or seasoned, flattened and sun-dried into savoury wafers.
Miso dengaku glaze
A sweet-salty Japanese glaze of miso, mirin, sake and sugar, warmed until thick and spread on grilled tofu, eggplant, daikon or konnyaku. Regional versions in Aichi use red miso and dashi.
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Natto with half-pack starter in a yogurt maker
Pressure-steamed soybeans are mixed with half a retail natto pack, held in a yogurt maker, and chilled; the creator reports a yield of about 300 g.
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Hoisin-inspired quick sauce using miso
An untested modern miso-based sauce inspired by hoisin's sweet, savory profile; this prototype is not traditional hoisin or a copy of a commercial brand.
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Natto with frozen retail starter
This video account makes natto from soybeans using frozen retail natto as a starter and a yogurt maker. It reports one home batch but leaves the starter mass, soak-water temperature, cooling controls and storage after chilling unstated.
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Natto with a documented Bacillus subtilis starter
Steamed soybeans fermented by a named strain of Bacillus subtilis into Japan’s sticky, strongly savoury whole-bean food, bound by the thread-forming polymer the bacteria secrete.
Hoisin sauce
A thick, dark, sweet-salty Chinese condiment built on fermented soybean paste. This page gives one quick home version and records how commercial formulas differ.
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Broad-bean mash (modern reconstruction)
Cooked broad beans crushed to a thick paste with garlic and salt, a museum preparation built on the one European pulse that was already old when the Viking Age began.
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Natto with retail starter and an oven-light incubator
A 250 g soybean batch uses one of nine retail-natto portions and a towel-wrapped oven-light setup; the thermometer location and starter-pack mass are unknown.
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Natto with liquid starter in a foam box
Liquid natto starter is mixed through pressure-cooked soybeans and incubated in a warmed foam box; the creator gives no incubation temperature.
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Ogiri-okpei from Prosopis seeds
Ogiri-okpei is a Nigerian condiment of cooked Prosopis africana cotyledons left to ferment spontaneously in leaf-lined containers, then ground and dried.
Barley miso (mugi miso)
A Japanese soybean paste fermented with barley koji and salt, made mostly in Kyushu, Shikoku and western Japan. It is sweet, savoury and grainy.
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Natto with a packaged starter
A two-cup soybean batch uses one Cultures for Health Natto Spores packet, a shallow perforated cover, and the supplier’s stated incubation and chilling sequence. The supplier’s instructions are not a validated home process.
Bekang / Bekang-um
A Mizo alkaline soybean ferment made by holding cooked beans in leaf-lined containers, sometimes with wood ash, until they turn sticky, soft and pungent; eaten fresh or used as a seasoning.
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Axone
Soybeans boiled soft and fermented in a leaf-lined basket by the hearth, then in many Naga households pounded, wrapped in leaves and fermented again into a dark, pungent seasoning paste.
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Black soybean thua nao with Bacillus subtilis
Black soybeans cooked, inoculated with a named Bacillus subtilis culture and fermented warm and humid into northern Thailand's thua nao, then optionally dried into thin discs.
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Gochujang with glutinous rice and meju powder
Korea’s sweet, savoury and fiery red paste of glutinous rice, barley-malt enzymes, fermented soybean meju powder and chilli powder, matured in earthenware.
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Rice-koji doenjang from a controlled study
A Korean fermented soybean paste built on rice koji instead of traditional meju blocks, matured warm for thirty days with salt holding the water activity down.
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Kinema with firewood ash
A sticky fermented soybean food of the eastern Himalaya, made here with a measured addition of firewood ash as an alkaline aid to the bacteria that drive it.